netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: team: expose sysfs attributes for each team option

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Message-ID: <546CECAD.1040402@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 19 Nov 2014 20:17:01 +0100
From:	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
To:	Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
CC:	Hamad Kadmany <hkadmany@...eaurora.org>,
	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	tgraf@...g.ch
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: team: expose sysfs attributes for each team option

On 11/19/2014 07:45 PM, Cong Wang wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 4:28 AM, Hamad Kadmany <hkadmany@...eaurora.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, November 17, 2014 1:02 pm, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>>>
>>> Nak.
>>>
>>> I don't like this patch. The plan for team was keep things simple and to
>>> have single userspace api using netlink, as that is the correct way to
>>> deal with things. Sysfs for this use-case is not. Please, use netlink api.

+1

>> Using team driver requires using libnl3. In Android based platforms, libnl3
 >> is not supported, and libnl3 license poses constraints in Android's user-space.

Constraints?! libnl3 is LGPL ...

> Check if libmnl fits your license:
> http://www.netfilter.org/projects/libmnl/

... and this one, too.
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